The FBI is reassigning agents back to counterterrorism after previously diverting them to immigration enforcement, following growing concerns about potential threats from Iran, according to sources familiar with the move
Southers worked for the FBI from 1984 to 1988 and was involved in foreign counterintelligence and terrorism and the SWAT team.
Matthew R. Alcoke has been named as the special agent in charge of the Counterterrorism Division of the Washington Field Office.
Jill Sanborn, who most recently served as the special agent in charge of the Minneapolis Field Office, has been named assistant director of the Counterterrorism Division at FBI headquarters in Washington D.C.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Scott Sweetow, the acting director of the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center (TEDAC), retired Saturday after more than 29 years as a special agent with ATF. Sweetow says he plans to run a private consulting firm based in Alabama specializing in explosives related counterterrorism and helping multinational companies identify terrorism indicators…
A Department of Homeland Security official and presidential appointee will leave his post after scaling back on some counterterrorism efforts involving weapons of mass destruction.
Michael J. Driscoll, a 23-year veteran of the FBI and a counterterrorism expert, has ben named special agent in charge of the Criminal Division for the bureau’s New York Field Office.
Jill Sanborn, a veteran counterterrorism agent who led the FBI’s investigation of the San Bernardino mass shooting in 2015, has been named special agent in charge of the bureau’s Minneapolis division.
